Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit

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As the new year has already started in some parts of the world - Oz-based site admin Burn was the first to notice 2017 arriving in our community - we have news of another new arrival in robotic form: actual robots (well, robotic suits) from a South Korean robotics group, designed for emergency response. As CNN reports, designers used cues from Transformers and Terminator live action movie franchises, though there are some glimpses of Aliens, Avatar and more mech-suits out there.

Check out the embedded clip below, and prepare to welcome our new robot overlords in 2017!

Credit(s): CNN

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Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849831)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on December 31st, 2016 @ 8:38am CST

come on then Hasbro, start making us Transformer suits.

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849834)
Posted by Tyrannacon on December 31st, 2016 @ 10:32am CST

Now if they work on consciousness transfer method and make it a war-like robot body that can transform into stuffs, like a tank, then I'll have my future plans for me.

Bleh. I'll keep dreaming.

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849835)
Posted by shocksound96 on December 31st, 2016 @ 10:33am CST

If they keep this up we might have mobile suit Gundams by 2025

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849850)
Posted by dragons on December 31st, 2016 @ 12:59pm CST

Seriously they beeped best line aliens typical kora, china, Japan would make these suits first before us

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849857)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on December 31st, 2016 @ 2:10pm CST

Looks like the mechs from avatar, i want one

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849864)
Posted by Emerje on December 31st, 2016 @ 3:20pm CST

Megatron Wolf wrote:Looks like the mechs from avatar, i want one

It's based on the suit from Avatar, the guy that designed it only worked on the Transformers movies.

Emerje

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849891)
Posted by fenrir72 on December 31st, 2016 @ 6:41pm CST

Cameron directed films like Aliens 2 and Avatar. I don't recall any Terminator looking like this. Not even in "Salvation"

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849905)
Posted by Microraptor on December 31st, 2016 @ 7:23pm CST

Give it some guns and my dreams will have been realized!

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849933)
Posted by TimothyR on January 1st, 2017 @ 12:41am CST

This doesn't look transformers inspired at all. Avatar? Absolutely.. transformers? Nope.

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1849972)
Posted by Duke of Luns on January 1st, 2017 @ 9:47am CST

Love it

. Disaster response and construction is something practical I could see these being used for somewhere down the road, and I'm all for it.

Let's keep guns and rocket launchers off of these though. There's already far to many ways to kill people as is.

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1850002)
Posted by Ultra Markus on January 1st, 2017 @ 4:39pm CST

it moves kind of awkward swaying side to side looks a bit top heavy like it might tip over easily :???:

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1850017)
Posted by Madeus Prime on January 1st, 2017 @ 6:56pm CST

One step closer! C'mon Japan!

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1850032)
Posted by Emerje on January 1st, 2017 @ 8:34pm CST

Madeus Prime wrote:One step closer! C'mon Japan!

Walking is still a ways off, but battling is coming very soon.

And yes, this is a real thing, USA vs. Japan.

Emerje

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1850060)
Posted by Starsaber468 on January 2nd, 2017 @ 12:58am CST

Lovely how many comparisons there have been made with this spawn8ng from transformers, gundam, and terminator there have been when honestly considering the size this is basically votoms in real life the size fits as well as the shape of the cockpit

Re: Footage of South Korean Emergency Response Transformers-Inspired Mech-Suit (1850123)
Posted by Chillyn on January 2nd, 2017 @ 2:35pm CST

Yet another instance of science fiction turning into science reality. For better or for worse.